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Ronnie Corbett: Your tributes

We will leave you with some of the memories of Ronnie Corbett, pictured here at Buckingham Palace receiving his CBE in 2012, sent in to us today.

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As a youngster I loved the Two Ronnies. I was lucky enough to meet him once many years ago playing as a junior doctor in a charity golf event at his local club, Dulwich and Sydenham. He happened to be in the bar after we had finished and asked what the golf day was in aid of. When we told him, he asked if we had an after dinner speaker lined up, and when he found out we hadn't, he offered to join us and do a turn. He was an absolute delight to talk to at the bar and through dinner, and he had us falling off our chairs with the funniest imaginable after-dinner speech and auction. What generosity of spirit from an absolute legend.

Alan Murphy

So sad to hear of Ronnie Corbett’s passing – he didn't ever stop working in spite of losing his entertainment other half, dear Ronnie Barker. He gave us decades of fun and laughter in his very clever and inimitable way. Big laughs from a little man. I am sure he enjoyed every minute he was on stage or in front of the camera and bravely carried on when Ronnie Barker died in 2005.

Linda Day

So sorry to hear of the death of comic genius Ronnie Corbett. There will never be another comic actor like him. My condolences to his family.

Audrey Finney

Just heard the sad news that Ronnie Corbett has died. He was a funny man, a fine actor and a great comedian. Ronnie was unique and irreplaceable and we shall not see his like again.

Harry Hill: 'They just don't make 'em like him anymore'

Ronnie was one of the first comics I ever saw live - he had such great timing and charisma. He'd seen so much come and go but was still really interested in new comics.

He came to my show at the Edinburgh Fringe unannounced, which was one of the biggest thrills of my life, and over the years gave me some great advice. Showbusiness was in his blood - he was a true pro.

When I had him on TV Burp, the gag was he would walk through the door and I would smack a custard pie in his face - he insisted on rehearsing it with a real pie.

Although he's known for his partnership with Ronnie Barker, anyone who knew him would tell you the most wonderful, entertaining partnership he was part of was with his wife Anne - the pair of them lit up the room. He was such fun and we will all miss him. They just don't make 'em like him anymore.

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Ken Dodd pays tribute to 'brilliant little man'

Ken Dodd said his friend Ronnie Corbett was a "brilliant little man" who he "admired greatly" and "shall miss very, very much".

Referring to Corbett's armchair monologues, 88-year-old Dodd said the comedian was the "best sit-down comic ever" and was a "superb diddy man".

Dodd said:

He excelled in all different branches of show business, he was a brilliant actor, an excellent comedian, a wonderful storyteller. His timing was superb. Ronnie was a very good, nice person. He was a very good friend and a brilliant little man - he was a great personality. He was brilliant in so many ways, he had so many facets to his art and skills. It is a great loss to show business and to everyone - all of us.

He said Corbett and Ronnie Barker were "Britain's best ever double act", adding: "Both of them were excellent. They excelled in so many branches of showbusiness."

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Dame Edna: Corbett's 'lovely spirit'

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Dame Edna Everage comic Barry Humphries has said Ronnie Corbett "belonged to the great tradition of musical artists".

I've always looked up to him, even when I'm looking down at him, and I'm saddened to hear of his passing because he was a lovely spirit. He was always courteous to everyone, he had no arrogance or vanity.

His teaming with Ronnie Barker was a stroke of genius. I know that a lot of his work was assisted by the writer Ian Davidson, and we will all miss Ronnie.

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Griff Rhys Jones describes Corbett as 'true professional'

Griff Rhys Jones told BBC Radio Suffolk:

Very important to understand, he was a very great interpreter of scripted comedy, that was his great skill. He's come through a tradition of both music hall and sketch comedy but he was a consummate television performer who then took his skills onto the stage. He was a true professional, he worked solidly at the things that he did and that's I think what made him so successful.

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Barbara Windsor: 'It was our biggest flop'

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Dame Barbara Windsor has paid tribute to Ronnie Corbett, with whom she worked at the start of both of their careers.

I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Ronnie today. We worked together in cabaret at Danny La Rue's club early in our careers and then again when we both were cast in a show called Twang!!. It was the biggest flop either of us ever had in our careers and we still laughed about it every time we bumped into each other over the years.

I saw him recently in the street and we laughed about two little people being such good friends for so many years. Ronnie was a truly brilliant all-round performer as well as comedian who could do it all. My love and thoughts are with Annie and the family on this very sad day.

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Obituary: Ronnie Corbett

As one half of The Two Ronnies, Ronnie Corbett was one of the UK's best-loved entertainers with a career spanning more than six decades.

The Two Ronnies predated Ant and Dec by more than 20 years and followed on from another household name comedy double act - Morecambe and Wise.

Made up of the rotund, jocular Englishman Ronnie Barker and the diminutive mischievous Scot Ronnie Corbett, the pair would become known for their hilarious sketches, mock news bulletins and comedy songs.

Their famous pay-off after every show was: "And it's good night from me. And it's good night from him."

Neither comic played the straight man, both seemingly more than content to share out the funnies between them and they worked together for more than 30 years until Barker's death in 2005.

He was a very easy man to love. He was a perfect companion. He was bright. He could tell good stories. He was funny. He was very rarely depressed. Anne, his wife, she'll be distraught. I mean, it was a great marriage. They've been together for many, many years, and it was a very loving partnership. We were just mates and I shall miss him terribly.

Michael Palin: 'His sense of comedy timing was absolutely perfect'

He spoke to BBC Radio 4's World at One about their working relationship and friendship:

"He loved whatever he did. He was a marvellous, sharp, concise performer. His sense of comedy timing was absolutely perfect, which is why he worked so well with John [Cleese] and with Ronnie Barker.

Ronnie had a great sense of silliness, which I responded to. He could also do the serious stuff but there was a lovely sort of mischief. His eyes twinkled…and he was absolutely delightful to play with and against. And he was also a good friend.

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Jamie Cullum to perform at Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza

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Jamie Cullum is heading to Glastonbury - although not the summer festival at Worthy Farm.

Instead, the singer is to appear as a special guest at the annual Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza, which festival organiser Michael Eavis set up to thank local residents for putting up with the disruption of the main event.

I am delighted to be playing as part of Glastonbury’s Abbey Extravaganza and opening for the legendary Van Morrison. Glastonbury is a festival close to my heart and to be a part of the support that is behind such a distinguished, world class event is as important as the festival itself.

Music, community, love and consideration are the cornerstones of Glastonbury and it’s events such as the Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza that go to prove this.

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Hungarian Noble Prize winner Imre Kertesz dies

Hungarian Noble Literature Prize winner Imre Kertesz has died at the aged of 86.

The novelist drew on his experiences in Nazi concentration camps for many of his works, having been incarcerated in Auschwitz as a teenager.

Fateless was the first in a trilogy of books in which Kertesz reflected on the Holocaust. A Kudarc (Fiasco) and Kaddish For a Child Not Born were written later and had the narrator looking back at a life scarred by the Holocaust.

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Hans Zimmer on Batman v Superman dialogue woes

Uber film composer Hans Zimmer has said he is not to blame if music drowns out dialogue during a movie - instead calling out inferior cinema sound systems.

There has been criticism levelled at the muted dialogue in Batman v Superman, for which he composed the score.

Speaking to the BBC's Rebecca Jones, he said: "I don't have control over it."

"Nobody sets out to make an incomprehensible movie. When we mix the film we mix it to the highest possible standard and we can hear every word, but that doesn't mean that every cinema has the same speakers... so what's our choice? Create for the lowest common denominator or tell people 'make your sound systems better'.